Our video “A Sea of Robots” is nominated for “Best Robot Video”Award at AAAI 2016. We are also nominated for “People’s Choice Award”, which is given out based on the number of “likes” on the YouTube video. So if you want to help us out, check out our video below and give us a thumbs up!

If you are like me and use SSHFS everyday, you’ve recently noticed that it stopped working on OS X El Capitan. The problem is that fuse4x is no longer supported, and does not work in this new version. The solution is to get rid of fuse4x and install OSXFUSE with its own version of SSHFS. Another issue is that macports also stops working with the update, so we have to fix macports before we can get rid of the old fuse4x and SSHFS ports. If you doing a clean install on El Capitan, just skip to step 3. If you’re updating from Yosemite or earlier, start here:

We’ve been really really busy making progress on our drone swarm project, which leaves me little time to update my blog. The good news is that we already have conducted successful tests with autonomous behaviors with 1 and 3 drones. Here’s a recent video that shows 1 prototype drone autonomously executing navigation and patrolling tasks. During the next couple of months we will be conducting experiments with up to 10 drones if all goes well 🙂